Forwarding questions
Xavier Van Laethem
xavier at xaviervl.com
Thu Oct 11 12:18:37 UTC 2001
Accordind to doc....
Forwarding
The forwarding facility can be used to create a large site-wide cache on a
few servers, reducing traffic over links to external nameservers. It can also
be used to allow queries by servers that do not have direct access to the
Internet, but wish to look up exterior names anyway. Forwarding occurs only
on those queries for which the server is not authoritative and does not have
the answer in its cache.
Zone Types master
The server has a master copy of the data for the zone and will be able to
provide authoritative answers for it.
zone domain_name [ ( in | hs | hesiod | chaos ) ] {
type master;
file path_name;
[ forward ( only | first ); ]
[ forwarders { [ ip_addr ; [ ip_addr ; ... ] ] }; ]
[ check-names ( warn | fail | ignore ); ]
[ allow-update { address_match_list }; ]
[ allow-query { address_match_list }; ]
[ allow-transfer { address_match_list }; ]
[ dialup yes_or_no; ]
[ notify yes_or_no; ]
[ also-notify { ip_addr; [ ip_addr; ... ] }; ]
[ ixfr-base path_name; ]
[ pubkey number number number string; ]
};
First:
so... for zone of type master, the server is authoritative, and make no
forward...
what is the purpose of forward and forwarders options in zone declarations ?
Second: how can i "add" RR (only for my own purpose ) in a domain without
changing his server (i do not have control of this domain but need to solve
few "Internal" names )...
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